Princeton University, 26.9

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3211

Shelfmark:

26.9

Title:

Gospel lectionary.

Date:

11--

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 739 p. : parchment ; 255 x 195 (255 x 82) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Cataloged from existing description.
Layout: 20-25 lines in 2 columns; framed ruled in dry point.
Decoration: miniatures and painted initials. A colophon on p. 615 indicates an abbot Alexios Stoudios commissioned and guilded the manuscript. But the colophon is false as most of the decoration in this manuscript was executed in the 20th century by the forger Demetrios Pelekasis (1881-1973).
Scribe: Written by two scribes: A: p. 3-702 and p. 711-739; B. p. 703-710.
Origin: Probably written in Constantinople in the 12th century.

Keyword:

minuscule

Goatskin bindings

miniatures (paintings)

parchment (animal material)

illuminated manuscripts

lectionaries

Manuscripts, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9937634763506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University